ISLAMABAD -- India and Pakistan will try yet again to come a step closer to peaceful coexistence this weekend when Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf travels to India to meet with Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Before Vajpayee and Nawaz Sharif, the former Pakistani prime minister, met in January 1999, many South Asian analysts believed the meeting represented an opportunity to break the ice between the two embattled neighbours.
However, that opportunity quickly vanished when the two sides fought a fierce, localized conflict near the town of Kargil in Indian administered Kashmir.